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Journal of Chinese
Architecture and Urbanism Cultural landscape in Huizhou City

simple, pragmatic three-room and two-porch buildings of in Huizhou City. Construct an indicator system
the Guangfu settlement, the “negative yin and embracing comprising data-based indicators and descriptive
yang” feng shui layout and majestic roundhouse buildings indicators.
characterize the Hakka settlement, while the dense village (ii) Input indicator data from 132 research cases. Utilize
layout and ornate decorations of the “downhill tiger” in the SPSS26.0 statistical analysis software to perform
Chaoshan settlement showcase the “Four Points of Gold” factor analysis, downsizing several data-type cultural
architecture. Each village and its cultural landscape hold landscape factor indicators to a few key independent
high cultural research and artistic esthetic value (Figure 1). factors.
(iii) Apply K-means clustering analysis to the key public
This study focuses on the cultural landscapes of factor data. Use the clustering results, along with
132 traditional villages in Huizhou City. The research indicator data, natural geographic characteristics of
encompasses 10 national-level traditional villages Huizhou City, and administrative divisions of villages
in China, 10 provincial-level traditional villages in and towns, to divide the traditional villages and
Guangdong Province, 15 municipal-level traditional cultural landscapes into distinctive sub-districts.
villages in Huizhou City, and several typical villages not (iv) Summarize and compare the landscape pattern
included in the protection list. These villages exhibit characteristics, landscape spatial characteristics,
good appearance, cultural characteristics, and certain and landscape unit characteristics among different
protection values, ensuring a comprehensive, objective, subdivisions of the traditional village landscape in
and scientifically reflective examination of the cultural Huizhou City. Reveal the regional characteristics of its
landscape characteristics and values of traditional villages cultural landscape.
in Huizhou City (Figure 2).
2.3. Division of traditional village cultural landscape
2.2. Research methodology zones in Huizhou City
Drawing a comprehensive overview of existing studies in 2.3.1. Construction of cultural landscape factor index
the preceding section, this study aims to adopt the well- system
established research mode of “cultural landscape factor
deconstruction-data collection and processing-principal To objectively and comprehensively reflect the
component extraction and systematic clustering-zoning” characteristics of traditional villages and cultural
from related studies. It seeks to analyze, in-depth, the landscapes in Huizhou City and to highlight Huizhou’s
cultural landscape gene theory and the K-means cluster uniqueness compared to other regional cultural landscapes,
analysis method to categorize the cultural landscape the construction of the indicator system mainly revolves
around the “natural ecological landscape features,” “village
of traditional villages in Huizhou into different zones, spatial form features,” “village architectural features,” and
summarizing their corresponding characteristics.
“village landscape element features” of traditional villages
The process involves four key steps: in Huizhou City. Cultural technicians have dismantled and
(i) Combine literature and research to select the culturally constructed this system across four levels, resulting in 22
significant landscape factors for traditional villages indicators in the evaluation system, comprising 17 data-type

Figure 1. The typical cultural landscape of traditional villages in Huizhou City. Source: Photographs by the authors

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